ONG Survey Development Final Draft CHECKED 7/12/2010 NO CHANGES
Note 1: For the purpose of this study, I will draw on the work of Anderson (2006), boyd (2007), boyd and Ellison (2007), Dalsgaard & Paulsen (2009), and Garrison & Anderson (2003), to define educational social software (ESS) as: technology that affords the establishment of individual virtual personal spaces, or profile pages, by users, while at the same time providing access to personal and shared suites of typical social media tools.
Note 2: This survey is designed to gather your perceptions regarding (a) the use of educational social software as part of education delivery at the program, course, and classroom levels and (b) the potential of this technology to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.
Please read the questions carefully and answer them as appropriate. Thank you for your participation. Section 1: Demographic Questions
1. Gender
M (Male)
F (Female)
2. Which age group do you belong to?
<20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
>60
3. Country of Birth [Country List]
4. Country of Current Residence [Country List]
5. Occupational Category
>Education (PreK-12 or Higher Education)
>Occupational Training (Business, Government, Industry/Manufacturing, Medical, Military, Other [Fill-in])
6. If you work in education, identify the level(s). Choose all that apply. Otherwise, choose NA.
Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Baccalaureate, Graduate, Doctoral, NA
7. If you work in education, identify the subject area/discipline in which you work. Otherwise, choose NA.
Arts/Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Physical or Life Science, Computer Science, Career/Technical Education, Other [Fill-in], NA
8. If you work in Occupational Training, identify the category. Otherwise, choose NA.
>Business, >Consulting, >Government, >Industry/Manufacturing, >Medical, >Military, >Service, >Other [Fill-in], NA
9. Do you work as: An instructor, An administrator, Both
10. I use technology in the delivery of course through the following formats [Choose all that apply].
Fully Online Education, Hybrid or Blended Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction, Other [Fill-in]
Section 2: Educational Social Software (ESS) Use
11. Keeping in mind the definition of educational social software presented in note 1 above, identify the foundational educational ESS tool(s) you use as part of your professional practice. (i.e. Ning, Facebook, ELGG, Social Media Classroom etc.) [Fill-In Answer]
12. Identify your general purpose for using ESS in the delivery of education and training.
1. Primarily for communication and community-building, 2. Primarily for content delivery and assignment completion, 3. Both are equally important
13. In your own words, identify your specific purpose(s) for using ESS in the delivery of education and training. [Fill-in]
14. Rate the importance of the following ESS features to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important.
Personal learning environments/spaces 1 2 3 4 5
Public profile spaces 1 2 3 4 5
Privacy controls 1 2 3 4 5
Connection to networks of peers 1 2 3 4 5
Connection to networks of experts 1 2 3 4 5
Discussion boards 1 2 3 4 5
Commenting 1 2 3 4 5
Blogs 1 2 3 4 5
Microblogs/updates 1 3 3 4 5
Link sharing 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous chat 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video play capability 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video upload capability 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous audio/video conferencing 1 2 3 4 5
Photo storage and display 1 2 3 4 5
Customizable graphics/colors 1 2 3 4 5
External feeds/RSS capability 1 2 3 4 5
Shared calendars/scheduling 1 2 3 4 5
Trackbacks 1 2 3 4 5
Mashability 1 2 3 4 5
Other [Fill-in] 1 2 3 4 5
15. Rank the following ESS features in the order of their importance to your education and/or training delivery activities. 1 = the most important to 21 = the least important.
Personal learning environments/spaces
Public profile spaces
Privacy controls
Connection to networks of peers
Connection to networks of experts
Discussion boards
Commenting
Blogs
Microblogs/updates
Link sharing
Synchronous chat
Audio/video play capability
Audio/video upload capability
Synchronous audio/video conferencing
Photo storage and display
Customizable graphics/colors
External feeds/RSS capability
Shared calendars/scheduling
Trackbacks
Mashability
Other [Fill-in]
16. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of learning communities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
17. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of learning communities? [Fill-in]
18. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of social presence in online environments. (Social presence = the ability of participants to project themselves socially and emotionally through the medium of communication being used. As per Garrison & Anderson, 2003.)
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
19. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of social presence in online environments? [Fill-in]
20. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of transparent learning environments in which students have awareness of and access to the products generated by other students in the process of engaging with course materials and activities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
21. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of transparent learning environments? [Fill-in]
22. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to support content creation by all users/course participants.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
23. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best support content creation by all users/course participants? [Fill-in]
24. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a viable and useful tool for teaching and learning.” 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Disagree, 3. Neutral, 4. Agree, 5. Strongly Agree
25. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a tool that can lead to the development of new models of education and training that are centered on students as the creators of individual life-long learning processes rather than on institutions and teachers as controllers of educational processes and dispensers of knowledge.” 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Disagree, 3. Neutral, 4. Agree, 5. Strongly Agree
Reflection: Identify challenges associated with implementing ESS capacities within your occupational setting. [Fill-in]
Reflection: Identify institutional barriers to the implementation of ESS capacities within your occupational setting. [Fill-in]
Microblog-style Open-ended Question: In 150 characters or less, summarize your thinking in regards to Educational Social Software. [Fill-in]
ONG Survey Development Draft 1
For the purpose of this study, I will draw on the work of Anderson (2006), boyd (2007), boyd and Ellison (2007), Dalsgaard & Paulsen (2009), and Garrison & Anderson (2003), to define educational social software as: technology that affords the establishment of individual virtual personal spaces, or profile pages, by users, while at the same time providing access to personal and shared suites of typical social media tools.
This survey is designed to gather your perceptions regarding (a) the use of educational social software as part of education delivery at the program, course, and classroom levels and (b) the potential of this technology to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.
Please read the questions carefully and answer them as appropriate. Thank you for your participation.
Section 1: Demographic Questions 1. Gender
M
F 2. Which age group do you belong to?
<20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60 3. Country of Birth [Country List] 4. Country of Current Residence [Country List]
5. Occupational Category
>Education (PreK-12 or Higher Education)
>Occupational Training (Business, Industry/Manufacturing, Medical, Military)
6. If you work in education, identify the level. Otherwise, choose NA.
Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Baccalaureate, Graduate, Doctoral,
7. If you work in Occupational Training, identify the category. Otherwise, choose NA.
>Business, >Industry/Manufacturing, >Medical, >Military
8. Rate your skills as a computer user from 1 = beginner to 5 = very advanced/professional.
1 2 3 4 5
9. Rate your skills as an internet user from 1 = beginner to 5 = very advanced/professional.
1 2 3 4 5
10. I use technology in the delivery of [Choose all that apply].
Fully Online Education, Hybrid or Blended Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction,
Section 2: Educational Social Software (ESS) Use 11. Identify the educational social software (ESS) tools you use as part of your professional practice. [Fill-In Answer] 12.Identify your purpose for using ESS
Primarily for communication, Primarily for content delivery and assignment completion, Both are equally important (much bigger answers possible - for instance, I use it because of personal ownership and control it gives to learners)
13.Rate the importance of the following ESS features to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = important to 5 = very important.
Personal spaces/pages 1 2 3 4 5 (should this be 'profiles'? Might be worth distinguishing personal [ple] and public [profile] spaces)
Discussion boards 1 2 3 4 5
Blogs 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous chat 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video play capability 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video upload capability 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous audio/video conferencing 1 2 3 4 5
Photo storage and display 1 2 3 4 5
Customizable graphics/colors 1 2 3 4 5
Link sharing
Polling
Wikis
microblog
scheduling/shared calendars
commenting
privacy controls/authorisation
aggregation (RSS) and mashability
external feeds, trackbacks and links
14. Rank the following ESS features in the order of their importance to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = the most important to 9 = the least important.
Personal spaces/pages
Discussion boards
Blogs
Synchronous chat
Audio/video play capability
Audio/video upload capability
Synchronous audio/video conferencing
Photo storage and display
Customizable graphics/colors
Link sharing
Polling
Wikis
microblog
scheduling/shared calendars
commenting
privacy controls/authorisation
aggregation (RSS) and mashability
external feeds, trackbacks and links
15. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of learning communities.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
16. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of social presence in online environments.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
17. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of transparent learning environments in which students have awareness of and access to the productions generated by other students in the process of engaging with course materials and activities.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
18. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to support content creation by all users/course participants.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
19. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a serious tool for teaching and learning.”
Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree
20. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a tool that has the potential to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.”
Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree
Micro-blog Open-ended Question: In 150 characters or less, summarize your thinking in regards to Educational Social Software. [Fill-In Answer]
Note 1: For the purpose of this study, I will draw on the work of Anderson (2006), boyd (2007), boyd and Ellison (2007), Dalsgaard & Paulsen (2009), and Garrison & Anderson (2003), to define educational social software (ESS) as: technology that affords the establishment of individual virtual personal spaces, or profile pages, by users, while at the same time providing access to personal and shared suites of typical social media tools.Note 2: This survey is designed to gather your perceptions regarding (a) the use of educational social software as part of education delivery at the program, course, and classroom levels and (b) the potential of this technology to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.
Please read the questions carefully and answer them as appropriate. Thank you for your participation.
Section 1: Demographic Questions
1. Gender
M (Male)
F (Female)
2. Which age group do you belong to?
<20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
>60
3. Country of Birth [Country List]
4. Country of Current Residence [Country List]
5. Occupational Category
>Education (PreK-12 or Higher Education)
>Occupational Training (Business, Government, Industry/Manufacturing, Medical, Military, Other [Fill-in])
6. If you work in education, identify the level(s). Choose all that apply. Otherwise, choose NA.
Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Baccalaureate, Graduate, Doctoral, NA
7. If you work in education, identify the subject area/discipline in which you work. Otherwise, choose NA.
Arts/Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Physical or Life Science, Computer Science, Career/Technical Education, Other [Fill-in], NA
8. If you work in Occupational Training, identify the category. Otherwise, choose NA.
>Business, >Consulting, >Government, >Industry/Manufacturing, >Medical, >Military, >Service, >Other [Fill-in], NA
9. Do you work as: An instructor, An administrator, Both
10. I use technology in the delivery of course through the following formats [Choose all that apply].
Fully Online Education, Hybrid or Blended Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction, Other [Fill-in]
Section 2: Educational Social Software (ESS) Use
11. Keeping in mind the definition of educational social software presented in note 1 above, identify the foundational educational ESS tool(s) you use as part of your professional practice. (i.e. Ning, Facebook, ELGG, Social Media Classroom etc.) [Fill-In Answer]
12. Identify your general purpose for using ESS in the delivery of education and training.
1. Primarily for communication and community-building, 2. Primarily for content delivery and assignment completion, 3. Both are equally important
13. In your own words, identify your specific purpose(s) for using ESS in the delivery of education and training. [Fill-in]
14. Rate the importance of the following ESS features to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important.
Personal learning environments/spaces 1 2 3 4 5
Public profile spaces 1 2 3 4 5
Privacy controls 1 2 3 4 5
Connection to networks of peers 1 2 3 4 5
Connection to networks of experts 1 2 3 4 5
Discussion boards 1 2 3 4 5
Commenting 1 2 3 4 5
Blogs 1 2 3 4 5
Microblogs/updates 1 3 3 4 5
Link sharing 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous chat 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video play capability 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video upload capability 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous audio/video conferencing 1 2 3 4 5
Photo storage and display 1 2 3 4 5
Customizable graphics/colors 1 2 3 4 5
External feeds/RSS capability 1 2 3 4 5
Shared calendars/scheduling 1 2 3 4 5
Trackbacks 1 2 3 4 5
Mashability 1 2 3 4 5
Other [Fill-in] 1 2 3 4 5
15. Rank the following ESS features in the order of their importance to your education and/or training delivery activities. 1 = the most important to 21 = the least important.
Personal learning environments/spaces
Public profile spaces
Privacy controls
Connection to networks of peers
Connection to networks of experts
Discussion boards
Commenting
Blogs
Microblogs/updates
Link sharing
Synchronous chat
Audio/video play capability
Audio/video upload capability
Synchronous audio/video conferencing
Photo storage and display
Customizable graphics/colors
External feeds/RSS capability
Shared calendars/scheduling
Trackbacks
Mashability
Other [Fill-in]
16. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of learning communities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
17. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of learning communities? [Fill-in]
18. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of social presence in online environments. (Social presence = the ability of participants to project themselves socially and emotionally through the medium of communication being used. As per Garrison & Anderson, 2003.)
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
19. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of social presence in online environments? [Fill-in]
20. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of transparent learning environments in which students have awareness of and access to the products generated by other students in the process of engaging with course materials and activities.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
21. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best enable the development and support of transparent learning environments? [Fill-in]
22. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to support content creation by all users/course participants.
1 = not important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
23. In your experience, which ESS feature(s) best support content creation by all users/course participants? [Fill-in]
24. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a viable and useful tool for teaching and learning.” 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Disagree, 3. Neutral, 4. Agree, 5. Strongly Agree
25. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a tool that can lead to the development of new models of education and training that are centered on students as the creators of individual life-long learning processes rather than on institutions and teachers as controllers of educational processes and dispensers of knowledge.” 1. Strongly Disagree, 2. Disagree, 3. Neutral, 4. Agree, 5. Strongly Agree
Reflection: Identify challenges associated with implementing ESS capacities within your occupational setting. [Fill-in]
Reflection: Identify institutional barriers to the implementation of ESS capacities within your occupational setting. [Fill-in]
Microblog-style Open-ended Question: In 150 characters or less, summarize your thinking in regards to Educational Social Software. [Fill-in]
ONG Survey Development Draft 1
For the purpose of this study, I will draw on the work of Anderson (2006), boyd (2007), boyd and Ellison (2007), Dalsgaard & Paulsen (2009), and Garrison & Anderson (2003), to define educational social software as: technology that affords the establishment of individual virtual personal spaces, or profile pages, by users, while at the same time providing access to personal and shared suites of typical social media tools.
This survey is designed to gather your perceptions regarding (a) the use of educational social software as part of education delivery at the program, course, and classroom levels and (b) the potential of this technology to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.
Please read the questions carefully and answer them as appropriate. Thank you for your participation.
Section 1: Demographic Questions
1. Gender
M
F
2. Which age group do you belong to?
<20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
3. Country of Birth [Country List]
4. Country of Current Residence [Country List]
5. Occupational Category
>Education (PreK-12 or Higher Education)
>Occupational Training (Business, Industry/Manufacturing, Medical, Military)
6. If you work in education, identify the level. Otherwise, choose NA.
Pre-K, Kindergarten, Grades 1-5, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Baccalaureate, Graduate, Doctoral,
7. If you work in Occupational Training, identify the category. Otherwise, choose NA.
>Business, >Industry/Manufacturing, >Medical, >Military
8. Rate your skills as a computer user from 1 = beginner to 5 = very advanced/professional.
1 2 3 4 5
9. Rate your skills as an internet user from 1 = beginner to 5 = very advanced/professional.
1 2 3 4 5
10. I use technology in the delivery of [Choose all that apply].
Fully Online Education, Hybrid or Blended Learning, Face-to-Face Instruction,
Section 2: Educational Social Software (ESS) Use
11. Identify the educational social software (ESS) tools you use as part of your professional practice. [Fill-In Answer]
12. Identify your purpose for using ESS
Primarily for communication, Primarily for content delivery and assignment completion, Both are equally important (much bigger answers possible - for instance, I use it because of personal ownership and control it gives to learners)
13. Rate the importance of the following ESS features to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = important to 5 = very important.
Personal spaces/pages 1 2 3 4 5 (should this be 'profiles'? Might be worth distinguishing personal [ple] and public [profile] spaces)
Discussion boards 1 2 3 4 5
Blogs 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous chat 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video play capability 1 2 3 4 5
Audio/video upload capability 1 2 3 4 5
Synchronous audio/video conferencing 1 2 3 4 5
Photo storage and display 1 2 3 4 5
Customizable graphics/colors 1 2 3 4 5
Link sharing
Polling
Wikis
microblog
scheduling/shared calendars
commenting
privacy controls/authorisation
aggregation (RSS) and mashability
external feeds, trackbacks and links
14. Rank the following ESS features in the order of their importance to your education and/or training delivery activities.
1 = the most important to 9 = the least important.
Personal spaces/pages
Discussion boards
Blogs
Synchronous chat
Audio/video play capability
Audio/video upload capability
Synchronous audio/video conferencing
Photo storage and display
Customizable graphics/colors
Link sharing
Polling
Wikis
microblog
scheduling/shared calendars
commenting
privacy controls/authorisation
aggregation (RSS) and mashability
external feeds, trackbacks and links
15. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of learning communities.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
16. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of social presence in online environments.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
17. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to enable the development and support of transparent learning environments in which students have awareness of and access to the productions generated by other students in the process of engaging with course materials and activities.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
18. Rate the importance of ESS capabilities to support content creation by all users/course participants.
1 = important to 5 = very important. 1 2 3 4 5
19. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a serious tool for teaching and learning.”
Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree
20. Indicate your agreement with the following statement: “Educational social software is a tool that has the potential to engender paradigmatic change in educational domains.”
Strongly Agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree
Micro-blog Open-ended Question: In 150 characters or less, summarize your thinking in regards to Educational Social Software. [Fill-In Answer]